Sisters Quilt Show 2024: Around Town

As we got close to this building, I started to suspect that I was seeing the SAME quilt over and over...

Indeed, it was a local quilt guild that decided to each make the same pattern, changed up to their own personal tastes.

The pattern is called "Urban Owls" if I remember that right.

 

 

They all seemed a little bit random to me, until I got to the Christmas version at the end. I think the pattern interprets well in Christmas colors!

 

The quilts hung from porches had the added feature of being able to walk around them and see what the backing looked like. Plus it was nice to duck into the shade for a while!

Across-the-street quilts. Last year we walked that side of town, this year we chose to start in a different area. I don't think it is possible to see them all!

Scrap-filled quilts on this row!

Colorful stars.

This was a popular quilt, deservedly so!

 

 

I was given some "orphan blocks" like those in this quilt. I guess I'll make them into potholders.

A beautiful subtle quilt in pale grays and yellows. It was hard to see the details in the bright sunshine, wish I could have seen it when the shade came over.

Even with a break for lunch we were too tired out to look at the rest, and it was too hot to keep going. We probably missed some amazing ones but hopefully we can do this again next year but not in triple digit weather!

 

If you want more, here is the post from last year and a post from 2015.

 

Sisters Quilt Show 2024: Twists on Tradition and some Inspiration

 

I like to look at quilts like this, and try to decide which square is the block that's being repeated.

A beautiful applique quilt with some felt pieces, laces and trims.

A glimpse of a tumbling blocks quilt, all hand pieced and hand quilted. The interesting thing here was that the little blocks made a different pattern in shadow and in sunshine!

A beautifully done sampler.

 

 This pastel quilt also looks different in shadow and sun.

 

This quilt was a show-stopper for me!

10,210 pieces, Read all about it!

I would actually like to make this. It would be exciting to see it come together.

I admire the diamond star and medallion quilts. I will probably never attempt one.

Beautifully done in traditional prints.

A traditional block but done BIG! 

I wish I had a better photo of this one, it deserves a lot of attention! Traditional blocks are overlaid with applique reminiscent of the block's names. 

I think this is a variation of the Drunkard's Path quilt block, at least it uses the pieces. Here it looks like a tropical flower or a pinwheel.

And now for some quilts that I took pictures of just for the inspiration:

 

This is simply half-square triangles. How hard could it be?

 

A case where the camera changed the quilt for me. In person, I hardly saw those gray squares, I only saw the "movement" of the red & white paths. When looking through the phone camera, the gray squares suddenly became prominent!

 

  Hexagon flower border... a good idea for an update of Grandmother's Flower Garden.

 

This should have been in my "brights" post, but I put it here with the other hexagon quilt as ideas for hexagons. I have been doing English paper piecing for a year or so, but only sewing a few hexagons every other week! 

 

Baskets with log-cabin-like fillings, and a delicate border. A very striking quilt for contrast and color.

Here's an idea for your old linens.

Each book here has a selvage for a title. No doubt the name of each fabric used. 

 

This quilt is not my type, but it gave me an idea for another way to use crazy quilt blocks: Impressionism.

This isn't quite a crazy quilt but it is a way to use up scraps, is this called crumb squares? I suppose if you are a dedicated quilter you have scraps with straight edges, whereas we dressmakers always end up with odd shapes better used in the previous style. I like these colors together.

One more post to come: scenes from around the town.

Sisters Quilt Show 2024: "Art" quilts

 

There was a whole row displaying the jaw-dropping quilts made by Judy and Angelia Peterson, but this one in particular interested me. The amazing things that can be done with fabric and thread!

 

Bird of Paradise

 

It was rather crowded in this display so I wasn't able to get in to see all the rest, but this quilter also had her own display section. 

 

Another amazing display of fabric art, and quilting art. 

 

We had had to brake for quails crossing the road driving out that morning, so this one amused me.

 

A close-up.

Quilted in fireworks!

Another amazing painting, in fabric and thread.

I didn't step in close to see the name this one was given, but I'm sure it was a good one! I see creatures in the air, the land, the water represented. So much detail!

Next Up: Traditional & Inspiring quilts

Sisters Quilt Show 2024: The Blues

 Blue-based quilts will always catch my eye: Blue-and-white, blue-and-yellow, and all the blue-greens. They are so popular they merited whole sections of their own in the town.

The middle quilt has a swan with its reflection.

You can do all kinds of designs with the log cabin block.

Best of the blue combinations in this sampler!

I love the depth the different blues give this half-square triangle quilt. It probably had a name but I didn't get to read all the description tags.

Gorgeous! It almost sparkles.

I recently noticed that blue and aqua are popular colors for the wedding ring pattern. In blues it reminds me of ripples in water.

The wall of the Stitchin' Post quilt shop is a display of quilts made by their employees.

This one caught my eye in particular after I went home and started looking through the photos. The largest star was interesting to me; I don't know the name of the block. It is three layers of stars stacked, and since we were in Sisters near the Three Sisters mountains, I think it should be called the "Three Sisters Star!" I have drawn out the block and have plans for it...

I love the very top quilt: fat bluebirds with a couple of cardinals sitting with them for contrast. The red "color pop" theme is in the house quilt next to it; there is one house with a red door. 

Now what should I post next... maybe some really amazing Art quilts!